Leaked documents reveal Office document support in the upcoming Pre. Thanks to Engadget and a leak from Sprint we have confirmed details on the upcoming device and how it will be sold. The launch guide has details of pricing, monthly plans for US customers but, as usual, Office Watch is
How to install Office without a CD or DVD drive. “I have a netbook with no optical drive. How can I install Microsoft Office? A friend says I have to either buy Office as a download from Microsoft or get an illegal download – don’t like either of those options.
Three places to save password information in MS Office. Ideally each login to a computer or web site should have its own password but it’s a given that we all use the same passwords too often. Remembering all those passwords is hard enough but you also have to remember the
Which versions of Office are approved on the server OS? As we mentioned last year, Windows Server 2008 can be used as a very stable and fast workstation operating system – it’s certainly more stable than Windows Vista in many situations. In addition, Office can run on Windows Server and
Office 2007 SP2 problems remain unsolved. Here are details of some possible Office 2007 Service Pack 2 problems we’ve been told about. We say possible only because in most cases we’ve been unable to confirm the details ourselves and there’s been no response from Microsoft yet. Still best to wait
When you buy Office 2007, how many computers can you install it on? When you buy Microsoft Office 2007, how many computers can you install the software on? The long and complex license for Office can be confusing and, from the messages we receive, there’s even more confusion now there’s
How to get rid of SP2 if it’s causing a problem. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is the first Office SP that you can uninstall but it’s not at all easy or obvious. The uninstall tool is a command line tool – you read that right and yes, we are
Windows 7 added 43 fonts to the set supplied by Windows. There will be 21 new typefaces in Windows 7, a total of 43 fonts to the set supplied by Windows. Many of the fonts are for non-English languages like Hindi, Japanese and Arabic. For Latin and similar alphabets, the
Outlook 2003, CMS and WSS get more hotfixes for ‘new’ bugs. Microsoft has released two more ‘hotfixes’ for Outlook 2003 bugs plus two patches for Content Management Server 2002 and a time zone update for Sharepoint. These patches are in addition to the patches for Office 2003, Excel 2003, PowerPoint
Even after Service Pack 2, there are more fixes for Office 2007. Service Pack 2 has been out less than a week and already there are more fixes for Office 2007. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Most are dated 30 April 2009 – only a
We look at some reports of Office 2007 SP2 bugs. There are some complaints appearing of problems are installing Office 2007 Service Pack 2 – hardly a surprise. It’s always hard to work out whether an Office Service Pack is truly to blame, though the uninstall option for SP2 makes
Some highlights and low lights of Service Pack 2. Only 24 hours since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released, here are some highlights and lowlights that have caught our eye. Over the coming weeks we’ll look at some features in detail and, hopefully, report as Microsoft discloses more information
Separate downloads of Service Pack 2 updated help files if you know where to look. Nowhere on Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 info pages will you find mention of yet more Office 2007 downloads. At the same time as Service Pack 2 was released are updated Help file downloads as well.
Six new patches for Office 2003, Word 2003, Excel 2003 and PowerPoint 2003. The update ‘fun’ this week users isn’t limited to Office 2007 – there are also several ‘hotfixes’ for Office 2003. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Only install them if you have the
Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 users have an Office 2007 related update too. There is an Office 2007 related update for Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 users. We strongly suggest installing the’ Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats‘ which let
Improvements summary for the latest update to Office 2007. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be available soon (not as we type this but not long now). In the meantime here’s a summary list of what Microsoft considers the major fixes or ‘improvements’ Office Watch will have its own
The known problems and major ‘behavior changes’ in SP2. If you look waaaay down Microsoft’s SP2 documentation you’ll find a list of ‘Known Issues and behavior changes’ , or in other words, things that work differently once you install Service Pack 2 or don’t work at all. Why? Microsoft Office
The official fix list for Access 2007 both the summary and the complete list. Here’s the official fix list for Access 2007 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This list does
The official fix list for OneNote 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list Here’s the official fix list for OneNote 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This
Details on the many downloads that make up Office 2007 SP2 plus 8 for server software. Details on the many downloads that make up Office 2007 SP2, plus the uninstall tool, and more download options for server software. Our advice is the same this time as for past Office Service Packs.
A trick for quickly printing part of a document, worksheet or slides plus when it does NOT work. Sometimes you just want to print part of a document, maybe a few paragraphs or many pages. One option available is to print the current selection. The basics are simple. In Word,
You can use Microsoft Excel to read your Tweets, incoming and outgoing. Yesterday we talked about SpreadTweet, a program that looks like Excel but really lets you to read and send tweets without being caught by your boss. Excel itself can be used to read incoming Tweets and your own
SpreadTweet is a way to view your Twitter account, looking like an Excel worksheet. It seems that not a day or maybe even an hour goes by without some new Twitter program or service is released, but we had to love this one – SpreadTweet. SpreadTweet is a way to
Try Office 2008 free for 30 days but watch out for the high price at the end. Mac users can now try Office 2008 free for 30 days. We have some money saving conversion tips that can save you a few hundred dollars. Where to start Microsoft itself hasn’t realized
